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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

MLB: Detroit-area scribes put Ordonez first in AL MVP race

Even Randal got into the act!

“I saw Magglio play every day,” Jim Hawkins said. “What I saw was a player having an MVP year. I have no quarrel with anyone who voted for A-Rod. He also had an MVP year. But with the injuries the Tigers had and the effort and performance I saw from Magglio, there’s no question he had an MVP year.”

Hawkins first became a member of the BBWAA in 1970. And since that time, he’s always put particular stock into the true essence of the award—a players’ value to his club.

...“You have to ask yourself where the Yankees would have finished without A-Rod and where the Tigers would have finished without Ordonez,” Hawkins said. “A-Rod had a better supporting cast than Magglio did. I know for a fact the Tigers would not have been anywhere close and certainly not in Wild Card contention without Magglio.”

...“I just counted it up,” he said less than three hours after the voting had been announced, “and as of a few minutes ago, I had gotten 30-some e-mails. All but two or three of them said, ‘You’re an idiot.’”

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   201. Nasty Nate Posted: November 20, 2007 at 09:46 PM (#2621780)
Does that answer your question?... Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.
   202. Swoboda is freedom Posted: November 20, 2007 at 10:50 PM (#2621833)
Will you stand above me?
   203. Taverna Posted: November 20, 2007 at 11:42 PM (#2621885)
Where have all the flowers gone?

Should I come now or wait till you finish?

Would you believe in a love at first sight?
(Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time)
What do you see by the end of the day?
(I can't tell you but I know it's mine)

Best thread ever.....
   204. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: November 20, 2007 at 11:53 PM (#2621904)
Who's on first?
   205. cercopithecus aethiops Posted: November 21, 2007 at 12:00 AM (#2621919)
Can the ocean keep from rushing to the shore?
   206. vortex of dissipation Posted: November 21, 2007 at 12:23 AM (#2621953)
Is there any point to which you would wish to draw my attention?
   207. Swedish Chef Posted: November 21, 2007 at 12:31 AM (#2621964)
Is it true that if this thread goes to 1000 posts, Answer Guy will answer all the questions in one long post?
   208. Hang down your head, Tom Foley Posted: November 21, 2007 at 12:39 AM (#2621973)
Hmmh?
   209. RJ not in TO Posted: November 21, 2007 at 12:47 AM (#2621981)
Do you think your Wu-Tang sword can defeat me?
   210. cercopithecus aethiops Posted: November 21, 2007 at 02:26 AM (#2622113)
Can this thread be allowed to die?
   211. vortex of dissipation Posted: November 21, 2007 at 02:30 AM (#2622117)
Is this a dagger I see before me?
   212. Boots Day Posted: November 21, 2007 at 02:57 AM (#2622158)
Did they get you to trade your heroes for gold? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change?

Did you exchange a walk-on part in the war for a lead role in a cage?
   213. BeanoCook Posted: November 21, 2007 at 03:00 AM (#2622167)
Better than the Seattle writers that blocked A-Rod from winning his first MVP, making him wait several seasons.
   214. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo) Posted: November 21, 2007 at 03:29 AM (#2622212)
Who are those guys?
   215. Alex Vila Posted: November 21, 2007 at 03:31 AM (#2622215)
Does Barry Manilow know you raid his wardrobe?
   216. Dr Love Posted: November 21, 2007 at 03:32 AM (#2622218)
Who are you? Who? Who? Who? Who?
   217. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo) Posted: November 21, 2007 at 03:32 AM (#2622221)
How can I be sure, in a world that's constantly changing? How can I be sure, where I stand with you?
   218. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: November 21, 2007 at 03:40 AM (#2622228)
How much wood can a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
   219. Vrhovnik Posted: November 21, 2007 at 11:12 AM (#2622374)
If I could stick my pen in my heart
And spill it all over the stage
Would it satisfy ya, would it slide on by ya
Would you think the boy is strange? Ain't he strange?
   220. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: November 21, 2007 at 11:54 AM (#2622377)
Are you hinting my apples aren't what they ought to be?
   221. dr. bleachers Posted: November 21, 2007 at 01:03 PM (#2622391)
Do you know what beef is?
   222. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo) Posted: November 21, 2007 at 01:17 PM (#2622399)
If you prick us do we not bleed?
If you tickle us do we not laugh?
If you poison us do we not die?
And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
   223. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo) Posted: November 21, 2007 at 01:26 PM (#2622403)
Won't you come home, Bill Bailey?
   224. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: November 21, 2007 at 01:50 PM (#2622417)
How much is that doggie in the window?
   225. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo) Posted: November 21, 2007 at 01:56 PM (#2622428)
May I? May I?
May I be your boy?
May I speak with you?
May I bring you joy?
   226. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo) Posted: November 21, 2007 at 01:59 PM (#2622430)
Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now?
   227. Swoboda is freedom Posted: November 21, 2007 at 02:17 PM (#2622446)
Will you. I'm trying to run an office here. Will you go to lunch?
   228. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: November 21, 2007 at 03:14 PM (#2622506)
Is this the end of Rico?
   229. IronChef Chris Wok Posted: November 21, 2007 at 03:21 PM (#2622523)
who, uncle rico?
   230. Bob Dernier Cri Posted: November 21, 2007 at 03:32 PM (#2622540)
Who made the salad?
   231. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo) Posted: November 21, 2007 at 03:42 PM (#2622553)
So, Peter, what's happening? Aahh, now, are you going to go ahead and have those TPS reports for us this afternoon?
   232. Bob Dernier Cri Posted: November 21, 2007 at 03:51 PM (#2622572)
Do you like to gamble, Eddie? Gamble money on pool games?
   233. Vrhovnik Posted: November 21, 2007 at 04:58 PM (#2622698)
Who's Harry Crumb?
   234. T.J. Posted: November 21, 2007 at 07:49 PM (#2622901)
Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?

To be or not to be(?)
   235. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo) Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:01 PM (#2622910)
Would I trow this lighted match in th'oven if my friend Rocky was in there?
   236. Lord Finesse Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:10 PM (#2622921)
How many bites did it take you to chew your ###### arm off?
Who was the governor of Campania during the Herculonious period?
Who the #### were those two other guys rhymin on "Diary"?
Are all of you there?
Can any Jehovah Witnesses be down with the Gravediggaz?
Do maggots get drunk when they bury alcoholics?
Who killed Tommy's Boy?
   237. Dr Love Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:15 PM (#2622926)
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, how many pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick?
   238. Pops Freshenmeyer Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:18 PM (#2622929)
U-P. Up?
   239. Teheran's Uranium Enriched Missiles Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:21 PM (#2622930)
If I didn't waste my time on BTF, I could have had class? I could have been a contender?
   240. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo) Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:29 PM (#2622941)
Tommy, can you hear me?
   241. Pops Freshenmeyer Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:30 PM (#2622944)
Will you look at these hands?
   242. Pops Freshenmeyer Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:32 PM (#2622949)
Will my hands ne'er be clean?

Can anybody find the other reference to that work in this thread?
   243. T.J. Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:36 PM (#2622951)
Didn't it have something to do with the speaker seeing a dagger before him?
   244. Teheran's Uranium Enriched Missiles Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:37 PM (#2622952)
Can anybody find the other reference to that work in this thread?

Are you saying Macbeth hasn't been referred to upthread? Say from whence you owe this strange intelligence?
   245. T.J. Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:37 PM (#2622953)
If someone uses a leading question while posting in this thread, should we BTF attorneys object to the form of the question?
   246. T.J. Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:38 PM (#2622958)
Any bets on whether Mr. Breaker is cursing himself for not refreshing before posting?
   247. Pops Freshenmeyer Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:39 PM (#2622960)
Are you saying Macbeth hasn't been referred to upthread?

Is that what it sounds like?
   248. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:45 PM (#2622967)
Hey, buddy, is that a dead cat in there, or what?
   249. Teheran's Uranium Enriched Missiles Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:46 PM (#2622968)
Is that what it sounds like?

Did I not make it clear?
   250. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo) Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:46 PM (#2622969)
Would it interest anyone to know that #134, my doubly appropos quote, was from Seatrain's "Thirteen Questions"? And that the song doesn't have 13 questions in it?
   251. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo) Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:47 PM (#2622972)
Hey, buddy, is that a dead cat in there, or what?

How can I really tell?
   252. Dr Love Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:48 PM (#2622973)
Oo-ooh, that smell, can't you smell that smell?
   253. Bob Dernier Cri Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:52 PM (#2622977)
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow,
Raze out the written troubles of the brain,
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the bosom of that perilous stuff
Which weighs upon the heart? Or art thou just
A Mets fan?
   254. The Chanumas Spirit Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:52 PM (#2622978)
"Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?
   255. Pops Freshenmeyer Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:55 PM (#2622982)
"Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?


Doesn't that depend on Maxwell's Demon?
   256. vortex of dissipation Posted: November 21, 2007 at 08:59 PM (#2622986)
What was it all for?
For the weather or the battle of Agincourt?
   257. Bob Dernier Cri Posted: November 21, 2007 at 09:00 PM (#2622989)
"Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?

Doesn't that depend on whether the guy taking the exam has slept with the girl he met during Freshman year?
   258. The Chanumas Spirit Posted: November 21, 2007 at 09:00 PM (#2622991)
Doesn't that depend on Maxwell's Demon?

Is Maxwell correct?

Could such a demon, as he describes it, actually violate the second law?
   259. TFTIO who can remember his past lives Posted: November 21, 2007 at 09:02 PM (#2622992)
Are you loonies actually going to keep this up?
   260. Pops Freshenmeyer Posted: November 21, 2007 at 09:04 PM (#2622993)
Could such a demon, as he describes it, actually violate the second law?

Doesn't the Demon require energy? Is he not part of the closed system?
   261. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo) Posted: November 21, 2007 at 09:06 PM (#2622994)
Are you loonies actually going to keep this up?
Who are you calling a loony, loony?
   262. Loren F.'s well-anchored glenoid Posted: November 21, 2007 at 09:13 PM (#2622997)
Will all of you have a nice Thanksgiving?
   263. Teheran's Uranium Enriched Missiles Posted: November 21, 2007 at 09:15 PM (#2622999)
For the weather or the battle of Agincourt?

So you think the English wasted a good box of matches on Jeanne d'arc?
   264. Swoboda is freedom Posted: November 21, 2007 at 09:16 PM (#2623001)
Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?
   265. Teheran's Uranium Enriched Missiles Posted: November 21, 2007 at 09:17 PM (#2623002)
Will all of you have a nice Thanksgiving?

Don't you think native Americans might not be celebrating this day?
   266. vortex of dissipation Posted: November 21, 2007 at 09:20 PM (#2623005)
So you think the English wasted a good box of matches on Jeanne d'arc?


Do you think Hermione Gingold would answer the question of why we burned her with, "Because we were cold"?
   267. Teheran's Uranium Enriched Missiles Posted: November 21, 2007 at 09:26 PM (#2623008)
Do you think Hermione Gingold would answer the question of why we burned her with, "Because we were cold"?

Do you think Kenny would have thought of her as gold, pure gold?
   268. The Chanumas Spirit Posted: November 21, 2007 at 09:29 PM (#2623011)
Who'd win in a fight, Thor or the Hulk?
   269. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: November 21, 2007 at 09:29 PM (#2623012)
Don't you think native Americans might not be celebrating this day?


Don't you think native Americans eat turkey, too?

BTW, can you spare some change for a fellow American who's down on his luck?
   270. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: November 21, 2007 at 09:30 PM (#2623014)
Who'd win in a fight, Thor or the Hulk?


I don't know, but wouldn't the Thing take both of them?
   271. Teheran's Uranium Enriched Missiles Posted: November 21, 2007 at 09:33 PM (#2623016)
Don't you think native Americans eat turkey, too?

Are turkeys available on reservations? Or are you talking about the Indians carving up Jimmy Gobble?
   272. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo) Posted: November 22, 2007 at 02:09 AM (#2623133)
"Because something is happening here
But you don't know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?"

"Won't you come see me, Queen Jane?"

Why did the preacher dress with twenty pounds of headlines stapled to his chest?

"Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn't you?"

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

"Do you want to make a deal?"
   273. Quiet Flows the Don Taussig Avenger (Edmundo) Posted: November 22, 2007 at 02:11 AM (#2623135)
What gives you the right to put up a fence to keep me out or to keep mother nature in?
   274. tyler Posted: November 22, 2007 at 02:33 AM (#2623143)
If this is my first time on a Questions Thread, do I have to ask a question?
   275. Dr Love Posted: November 22, 2007 at 02:40 AM (#2623146)
If this is my first time on a Questions Thread, do I have to ask a question?


Isn't it obvious?
   276. John (You Can Call Me Grandma) Murphy Posted: November 22, 2007 at 01:55 PM (#2623308)
What in the wide world of sports is a-goin' on around here?
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